He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu repelled the world's No. 1! Lu Guangzu defeated the first brother of Indonesia for the first time, and Han Yue lost a pity
The 2024 BWF Super 1000 Malaysia Open will enter the 16-8 competition. The national feather has created three major upsets in the matches that have ended, namely the men's singles Lu Guangzu narrowly defeated the former world No. 2, Indonesia's Ginting and Shi Yuqi met in the quarterfinals, the men's doubles He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu defeated the former world No. 1 and the women's singles Han Yue lost to Yang Jiamin and missed the cut.
Lu Guangzu's opponent in this round is No. 4 seed Ginting. In this game, Lu Guangzu won the game with an active and tenacious defense without having the upper hand, with the scores of 23-21 and 25-23. At the end of the first game, Lu Guangzu took the lead in getting the game point, and he was chased to 21 draws by stealing a backcourt error. At the critical moment, Ginting also made a mistake and gave Lu Guangzu 2 points; in the second game, Ginting accelerated, Lu Guangzu bit tightly, and Lu Guangzu won the game with a stroke on the penalty kick.
At that time, Ginting had already got a good opportunity to score in front of the net through the transfer of the front and back courts, and the line of the ball went straight to Lu Guangzu. Lu Guangzu relied on his instinctive reaction to save the ball sideways, but he didn't expect to reach Ginting's backcourt, instantly turned passive into active, and won the game through the same way of pounce. After the victory over Ginting, Lu Guangzu and Shi Yuqi successfully met in the quarterfinals, with the latter sweeping Bigwig Popov 21-13, 21-5.
Lu Guangzu's luck at the Malaysia Open was very poor, he faced Malaysia's first brother Li Zijia in the first round, and challenged Indonesia's first brother Ginting in the second round. I don't know, can Lu Guangzu continue to break into the top four? Shi Yuqi has passed the winter training, and his competitive state is also quite ideal, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, and he looks forward to a wonderful competition between the two.
Ho Jiting/Ren Xiangyu, who regrouped in the second half of '23, continued their good form and faced former world No.1 Ahsan/Hendra of Indonesia, who won the first game to advance to the next round 21-17, 15-7. Judging from the game, any combination of double-pressure play made Ahsan/Hendra have no power to fight back, and the two veterans in the second game are limited by physical fitness and can no longer keep up with the rhythm of He Jiting/Ren Xiangyu, so they can only choose to retire.
Women's Singles No. 8 seed Han Yue was beaten in two games in a row by Singapore's first sister Yang Jiamin after winning one game first, and missed the quarterfinals 21-16/19-21/20-22. In the second game, Han Yue led from 16-13 to 7 points in a row to fall behind 16-20, and then chased 3 points in a row, and finally lost 19-21. In the decisive game, Han Yue chased 2 match points in a row, but still fell short.
In the rest of the matches, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan beat Denmark's Malken/Thygesen 21-13, 22-20, Chen Yufei beat Intanon 21-15, 21-18 to claim their 17th victory, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong beat Kushayanto/Kusumavati 21-18, 21-17, and Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning beat off another pair of Li Yijing/Luo Xumin 21-19, 21-10.